Monday, July 2, 2012

Syria: Russia - West Seeks War With Russia - Analysis.

Russia and China say any decision on a transition of power in Syria should only be made by the Syrian people.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi announced the stances of their countries after a meeting on the situation in Syria at the United Nations office in Geneva on Saturday.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Lawrence Freeman, with the Executive Intelligence Review, from Washington, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Let’s look at controlling this meeting and who was allowed to come and who was not. When the meeting itself is controlled as far as even those who would participate in it, how likely would it have been, even from the beginning, that it was actually going to accomplish something that would basically benefit the Syrian people and not a particular agenda?

Freeman: We have a clash now between two opposing views. Foreign Minister Lavrov represented a very clear understanding of the role of sovereignty of Syria, for Iran and for Russia as well.

The opposite side, which is intent on eliminating sovereignty, is represented by the policy of Tony Blair and the responsibility to protect, which has now become the dominant doctrine of the Obama administration which was given to him by Tony Blair to essentially override, overrule and intervene against sovereign states throughout the world.

This is what is going on in Syria. This is what the intention is on Iran. The target is much bigger. The target of the British crown which is the much dominant imperial power, not the United States or Israel, they want to have a showdown and force a concession, a submission by Russia because Russia is their key target.

We’re going through, right now, the greatest financial collapse in history. You see it in Europe and you can see it in the United States. Under those conditions, the British financial crowd in London, the city of London, and Wall Street do not want independent nation states and therefore this confrontation is really designed to lead to a war with Russia in which they would expect Russia to back down.

The Russian government, the president, prime minister and foreign minister have been very clear that they will not allow outside forces to overthrow this government and they will not allow outside forces to determine their own sovereignty as well......read more